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From: shap@bunker.UUCP (Joseph D. Shapiro)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: .signature file
Message-ID: <6554@bunker.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jul 89 16:54:03 GMT
References: <2989@blake.acs.washington.edu> <1989Jul28.223042.4488@twwells.com>
Reply-To: shap@clunker.UUCP (Joseph D. Shapiro)
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In article <2989@blake.acs.washington.edu> sgs@blake.acs.washington.edu (Steven Smith) writes:
: I'm having trouble getting my .signature file to work on public postings.
: I've got a file called .signature, spelled out in entirety, of course, in
: my root directory.  When I reply privately (email) to postings, rn "asks me"
: if I want to append the signature.  If I answer yes, it's appended, no problem.
: But when I post publicly (I get the message that the signature has been left
: off because it must be readable by the "inews owner." The protection ("mode")
: of the .signature file and my root directory are both set so that the world
: can read them.  What's going on?  Has anyone seen this problem before?

It is possible, that in enviroments that are made up of several
computers tied together with some kind of network, e.g. ethernet, or
with shared disk drives, that news is sent from only one system, even
though you can run the news program on any system.

If this is the case, your .signature file must be in your home
directory on the system which actually runs 'pnews' or whatever your
news posting program is.

Hope this helps more than confuses.

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